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Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh (www.theatlantic.com)
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https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/comic-sans-debate/680319/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought that was just for humanoid figures, does it apply to paintings and such too?

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

That's certainly where the term originated, but usage has expanded. I'm actually fine with it, as the original idea was about the pattern recognition we use when looking at faces, and I think there's similar mechanisms for matching other "known" patterns we see. Probably with some sliding scale of emotional response on how well known the pattern is.